caa a22 4500 388034270 CHVBK 20180307125000.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199808 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1086/647881 doi S0195941700088548 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1086/647881 Harvey Maurene A. Consultants in Critical Care Inc, Pasadena, California Critical-Care-Unit Bedside Design and Furnishing: Impact on Nosocomial Infections [Elektronische Daten] [Maurene A. Harvey] Hospitals in the process of building or renovating intensive-care units (ICUs) often establish multidisciplinary design teams. However, these teams rarely include infection control professionals. Because nosocomial infection is common in the ICU, design features can affect the risk of infection transmission, and outbreaks can occur during construction, this exclusion seems shortsighted. Infection control professionals are familiar with the relevant research, as well as the regulations and guidelines related to ICU design and infection control practices. Not only is their input essential to the design and construction of safe and effective units but their presence on the design team can allow the prospective collection of comparative data to turn the building project into a research project. Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998 Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Cambridge University Press 19/8(1998-08), 597-601 0899-823X 19:8<597 1998 19 ICE https://doi.org/10.1086/647881 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1086/647881 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harvey Maurene A. Consultants in Critical Care Inc, Pasadena, California NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Cambridge University Press 19/8(1998-08), 597-601 0899-823X 19:8<597 1998 19 ICE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge